Kim Jong-un has effectively broken off his own relationship with China

Christopher Hill

“I think Kim Jong-un is very much dedicated to his father’s unfinished business. Unfinished business in the sense that his father wanted the country to go nuclear, but did not concede with his relationship with China.

“So, Kim Jong-un has effectively broken off his own relationship with China.

“And secondly, I think he is very concerned about his grandfather’s unfinished, which was to unify the Korean peninsula and that was thwarted by the presence of the Americans on the Korean peninsula, and, of course, many other countries from the United Nations.

“So, he is looking for a means to decouple this kind of international support and I think he thinks nuclear weapons are the way to do that.

“There are lots of reasons to be losing sleep these days.”

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said the possibility of military conflict still remains low.

The Senator, however, predicted a significant upwards shift in the possibility if Kim Jong-un fires another test missile.

Senator Graham said: "I should say there’s a three in ten chance we use the military option.

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